Burn

One of Lisa Gerrard’s shorter albums overall, reaching just over half an hour, Burn is also one of her most contextually intriguing; her main collaborator this time, Jules Maxwell, had appeared with Dead Can Dance in the past, and created all the music for this release, favoring a very dark, almost metal-tinged crunch combined with echo-laden keyboards. Gerrard’s own vocals similarly have the reverb added, making her always remarkable singing more strangely ghostly, and the result are fine songs like “Deshta (Forever)” and “Orion (The Weary Huntsman).”